Read in browser Today's Brief The half of corporate travel that's growing skips the RFP - The corporate booking that's growing is captured by the channel, not the contract — open-web spend dragged into a managed tool and booked at whatever rate shows up. Jul 13, 2026 • Hospitality Booking is copying Expedia's most durable asset - The company is folding Booking.com, Agoda, and Priceline into one B2B entity run by Agoda's CEO — a bet that the most valuable OTA business is the one hotels never see. Jul 13, 2026 • Hospitality tambourine Welcome to the end of booking engine fees. With Tambourine One, the booking engine is built directly into the website experience, eliminating the fall-off between website and booking engine. And best of all, we don't charge transaction fees or commissions, so hoteliers keep more of their revenue. Learn more Your hotel's AI visibility score is mostly noise - Ask AI the same question and the brands it names change more than 99% of the time — yet the dashboard sold to your hotel reports a single reading as fact. Jul 13, 2026 • Marketing Google folds tours and events into its AI-run travel ad engine - A new open beta extends Search Campaigns for Travel to Things to Do and Events, with AI Max handling the matching — the same consolidation Booking just made with BKNG Ads. Jul 13, 2026 • Hospitality The AI audience stopped speaking English. The retrieval didn't. - More than half of ChatGPT's users now work in another language — yet its background search still runs in English, and those English sources favor global chains over your hotel. Jul 13, 2026 • Hospitality Google starts labeling AI-made ads, just before the EU AI Act makes it mandatory - A new "How this ad was made" tag hits Search, YouTube, and Discover — automatic for Google's own AI tools, self-declared for everyone else. Jul 13, 2026 • Hospitality ... in case you missed it, our Daily Brief July 9, 2026 Advertising   Contact   Legal   © 2026 Hospitality.today™